Techniques for reducing power consumption in user equipment modems
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsShay Landis, Jacob Pick, Tomer Geva, Peer Berger
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Abstract
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that a measurement associated with signal strength satisfies a threshold. The UE may modify a parameter associated with a modem of the UE, based at least in part on the measurement satisfying the threshold, to reduce power consumption. Numerous other aspects are described.
Claims28
An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
- one or more memories;
- and
- one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to:
- determine that a measurement associated with signal strength satisfies a threshold, the measurement including a spare signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) calculated as a difference between an instantaneous SNR and an SNR requirement;
- and
- modify a parameter associated with a modem of the UE, based at least in part on the measurement satisfying the threshold, to reduce power consumption.
An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
- one or more memories;
- and
- one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to:
- transmit an indication that the UE is configured to use spare signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to reduce power consumption;
- and
- modify a parameter associated with a modem of the UE based at least in part on the spare SNR satisfying a threshold.
An apparatus for wireless communication at a network node, comprising:
- one or more memories;
- and
- one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to:
- receive an indication that a user equipment (UE) is configured to use spare signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to reduce power consumption;
- and
- transmit at least one parameter associated with using the spare SNR to reduce power consumption.
An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
- one or more memories;
- and
- one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to:
- determine that a measurement associated with signal strength satisfies a threshold, wherein, to determine that the measurement satisfies the threshold, the one or more processors are configured to at least one of:
- estimate an instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) using a reference signal and subtract an SNR requirement from the instantaneous SNR to calculate the measurement;
- or
- receive, from a network, an indication of the instantaneous SNR associated with the UE and subtract the SNR requirement from the instantaneous SNR to calculate the measurement;
- and
- modify a parameter associated with a modem of the UE, based at least in part on the measurement satisfying the threshold, to reduce power consumption.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.